Big Sur Camping with the Playgroup

When we learned we were having twins, we joined the Gemini Crickets parents of multiples club to commiserate learn about handling multiple screaming infants at the same time. Playgroups form with like-aged kids, and it turns out, our playgroup does an annual camping trip to Big Sur. All total, 7 families descended upon the small Riverside Campground, bringing with us 14 kids worth of chaos; that’s 6 sets of 4-year-old twins!

We decided to take the Leaf, partly because we could, and partly just to see we could actually fit 3 nights worth of stuff into it — turns out we can, but only just barely. It was 100 miles each way. Both ways, we stopped in Salinas to charge in the middle whilst having a meal and charging the car. Since we had an RV camp site, there was no problem charging at the campground.

There was a strong, cold wind blowing that morning. The docents did their best to explain the history of the light house by stopping every 50 yards to tell a new bit of trivia. It was fascinating, but, made for a considerably longer exposure than I anticipated climbing up the road.

At the beginning of our walk, our docent talked about an aircraft carrier that sank off the point. Little did anyone know that this teaser line wasn’t referring to just any aircraft carrier, but it was the airship USS Macon. Macon is the reason for the iconic Hangar 1 at Moffett. Inside the gift shop, they had a room dedicated to Macon and the trapeze that was used to launch and recover the Sparrowhawk biplanes.

The girls would select a rock to throw into the water, and then make a along, overhanded run at the water and finally transition to an underhanded throw at the water’s edge. I should have captured a video, it was quite hysterical

I have to say thank you to everyone that helped organize this adventure, for helping with the kids, and for all around making this one of the best camping adventures we’ve had. Can’t wait for next year!